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Definition of Membranous labyrinth

1. Noun. The sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors and the cochlea; contained within the bony labyrinth.

Medical Definition of Membranous labyrinth

1. A complex arrangement of communicating membranous canaliculi and sacs, filled with endolymph and surrounded by perilymph, suspended within the cavity of the bony labyrinth; its chief divisions are the cochlear labyrinth and the vestibular labyrinth. Synonym: labyrinthus membranaceus. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Membranous labyrinth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The membranous labyrinth is contained within the bony cavities just described, ... Within the osseous vestibule the membranous labyrinth does not quite ..."

2. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The membranous labyrinth repeats in general ... The auditory nerve is distributed to the membranous labyrinth. For an account of the minute structure of ..."

3. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, William Sharpey, Allen Thomson, John G. Cleland (1867)
"... the existence of wliich has only been discovered of late years. The liquid contained within the membranous labyrinth is distinguished as ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"The ear consists of two principal parts, the internal ear or membranous labyrinth, and the middle ear or tympanum. ... membranous labyrinth of Lacerta ..."

5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"The vestibular division of the membranous labyrinth consists of an oval sac, ... THE membranous labyrinth AND THE ENDINGS OF THE AUDITORY NERVE. ..."

6. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"membranous labyrinth of the Left Side, with lt> Nerve« and ... The membranous labyrinth is filled by a fluid which is termed the endolymph; and in certain ..."

7. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"These liquids are of two kinds : one is contained in the membranous labyrinth, the other in the osseous labyrinth. The fluid of the membranous labyrinth, ..."

8. Diseases of the Ear by Philip D. Kerrison (1921)
"THE membranous labyrinth.—The membranous labyrinth is everywhere partly surrounded by a supporting fluid, the perilymph. I say "partly" for the reason that ..."

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